I wasn’t sure I was going to like this series of books (ttyl is first, ttfn is second, and l8r, g8r is the third and final installment). As a former English teacher, and a spelling/grammar OCD fanatic, I was convinced that the fact that the ENTIRE text of all three books is in IM-speak was going to drive me over the edge crazy, but in the end I found it somewhat refreshing. Don’t get me wrong, I still had occasional urges to go through it with a red pen and correct the crap out of it, but I could totally see why these books would appeal to teenage girls.
Think Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in a chat room, and these books are what you get. Inside, you’ll discover three BFFs at the start of their sophomore year, ready to take on whatever life throws at them. Maddie, Angela, and Zoe (or mad maddie, zoegirl, and Snow Angel) are as different as you can get, yet their friendship has managed to remain intact. The subject matter is a bit racier than in Sisterhood—parts of the books even made ME blush, if you can believe that—and it only gets more so as they progress through high school (ttfn chronicles their junior year, l8r, g8r is them as seniors). Think inappropriate relationship with a teacher, drunken frat party—and that’s just them as sophomores!
All in all, these books hold mass appeal (the first two in the series were best-sellers, and the third will be there upon publication this month) and are sure to be frequently circulated in any library (even NHS!).
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